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The controversy surrounding the H-1B Visa program is similar to what blue collar Americans in farming and low-skilled jobs have been complaining about and that is the immigrants are taking their jobs, the difference in the case of H-1B Visa's is that these people are coming to the US legally and are taking jobs in high-skill, high-education requiring jobs such as doctors and engineers. There are really two sides to the controversy, the first being that companies are hiring H-1B workers to replace American IT specialists, as in the case with Disney, because those coming on H-1B Visa's are more likely to accept a lower wage and may be more motivated to stay at the current company and work extra hard because they have the fear of being sent back to their home countries if they do not have the Visa which is sponsored by their employer. On the other hand, there has been a significant amount of contribution to the STEM industry by foreign born people. Some of the biggest companies i...